Competition Ground, Ishtar.
"Flare!!!" Black flames erupted from August's arm forming a giant hand of flames. He then turned his head towards Tia who was slowly being pulled into the sand, and immediately reached out to her.
The hand made of flames grabbed Tia's arm, and surprisingly it didn't do any damage to her and just pulled her out of the sand and brought her away from it.
"Thanks.." Tia wiped the sweat off her forehead as she looked at August. Even though she wasn't afraid of getting eliminated, being swallowed by sand sure seemed scary.
"It's not over yet.." August reminded her as his gaze locked onto the fast approaching quick sand. They had to think of something quick.
"Should we call a truce for now?" Faryl suddenly asked as he looked at August, and Melan who was very eager to mount a sneak attack on them earlier.